Example sentences of "before we [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is vital , before we canonise the creatures , to note that acting for an end ( requiring teleological explanation ) is almost a defining feature of the living world as a whole . |
| 2 | ‘ I sent Jean home before we crossed the river . |
| 3 | ‘ Does anyone have any immediate thoughts or ideas before we analyse the film and the procedures in detail ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It 's stifling in here — we 'll have to do something before we bring the twins back to this apartment , ’ Laura agreed . |
| 5 | In our evaluation of the case for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms we considered over 100 publications on the subject before we chose the best available evidence for inclusion in the decision analysis — this is not the ‘ narrow range ’ claimed by Shearman and colleagues . |
| 6 | I began the project with the orchestra several years before we made the recordings . |
| 7 | The former Eire and Manchester United midfielder said : ‘ They could have had one or two goals before we took the lead . |
| 8 | Surely a policy decision should be taken soon , before we miss the opportunity and no longer have the funds to invest in a future first class tourist industry ? |
| 9 | Mr Greenway praised the ‘ distinguished and courageous ’ Falklands campaign and added : ‘ We had better be careful before we defile the names of people who acted with such valour in the name of the United Kingdom . ’ |
| 10 | In a sense , the hype answered that question even before we saw the programme . |
| 11 | It took us 20 minutes of scrambling through squalid , ruined alleyways before we reached the place , clambering over burnt-out buses and cars to find some Christian gunmen sitting on a pile of earth , smoking cigarettes . |
| 12 | We galloped along the sand , and I knew what had happened long before we reached the rocks where the King lay . |
| 13 | Before we reached the BUPA hospital in Paddington , I felt I knew every temperature change Salome had gone through in the past five days , what her grandmother — phoning twice daily from Jamaica — thought about life , the universe and young people driving around in fast cars , and how difficult Frank had found going to the launderette . |
| 14 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 15 | At the same time , d the Tories are on their knees , some people , as I said earlier , I think it 's just as relevant in this debate , seem to have lost their way and when you took , look at what they 're proposing in terms of say , the er the fifty percent , the , the er M Ps , fifty percent of the votes for er the Parliamentary leader which of course is very consistent with , right , fifty percent of the vote , you take that along with proportional representation and what I believe you 're seeing is the number of people who have given up the ghost and are preparing to restructure the Party around coalition politics , and that 's where they 're heading , and they 're heading completely in the wrong direction because we 're more in tune with what 's going on in this country , the po opinion polls are saying fifty nine percent of the people actually I think , believe that er the Labour government is possible and will be voting for a Labour government , the alternative road is to oblivion and it 's not about modernizing , the people who 're proposing this coalition politics are n't modernizers , they 're Victorian politics , that 's what they 're about , they 're about taking us back , back before we created the Party , before we learnt the lesson that we needed to represent ourselves politically , they 're going back to , let's skil see what we get out of the Liberals , the free trade Liberals , in the nineteenth century , that 's where they 're going back , that 's not about modernization , real modernization is about making sure that the Labour Party speaks for the working people up and down this country and that 's our contribution to make to that Party and therefore we should have a role in decision making and influencing the Party that enables us as an organization to express that feeling , and that understanding of what people actually want in this country , and that 's why we 're supporting the C E C proposals . |
| 16 | ‘ How about a drink before we catch the tram home ? ’ |
| 17 | Then we could have some tea together before we catch the train . |
| 18 | ‘ We were all friends before we got the band together , and it 's strange that there 's gon na be changes , ’ continues Greg , with clinical ruthlessness . |
| 19 | We had to wait until the next day before we got the results . |
| 20 | It will probably be some months yet before we get the final government reaction to our proposals . |
| 21 | WHENEVER we deal with Local Authorities on sensitive issues , especially those concerning the environment we must HAVE considered these aspects and have the answers before we get the questions . |
| 22 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 23 | I have known Trevor for many years and he is a mass of seething hate before breakfast most days , so I could smell the revenge in him even above ‘ Jock ’ McDougall 's armpits before we left the changing room this afternoon . |
| 24 | At the end of the afternoon , before we left the wood , and with a solemnity and sincerity , a complete dedication of herself that I can not describe to you because such unconditional promising is another extinct mystery … she said , ‘ Whatever happens I shall never marry anyone but you . ’ ’ |
| 25 | But I could not stop Cathy whispering something in Linton 's ear , before we left the room . |
| 26 | Before we left the island for good though we had one last place to go . |
| 27 | You see , I refused to go through with the wedding unless he promised to hand this over before we left the reception . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 29 | We are investing millions in these technologies and we want to know what are the rules of the game before we take the risk of bringing a product to the marketplace . ’ |
| 30 | Since over 50% of us seem to opt for a period of co-habitation before we take the marital plunge , these findings are pretty sobering stuff . |